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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

40 reviews

kkellymsu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, War, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Emotional abuse and Death of parent

strange_abalone's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Lesbophobia, Torture, Vomit, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Body horror, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and War

chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Homophobia, Torture, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Outing

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Slavery, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Grief, Classism, Death of parent, Child abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Body horror, Slavery, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Cursing, Misogyny, Murder, and Violence

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault and Homophobia

abidoodle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I liked this book the best of the series. It wasn’t an amazing book, but it was more worth reading to me than the others. While there were definitely some cheesy parts and bad writing, particularly when it came to the romance, there were some really deep themes that ran through this novel. Like the impact of war on peoples lives and the way PTSD affects people and relationships. Or accepting, loving, and forgiving oneself. Or healing from past trauma and abusive relationships. I think those parts made the book worth reading. Maybe I was over analyzing it because I just took a class on War and Peace through literature and I was hyper focusing on those aspects, but I thought it was meaningful to touch on the realities of war. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Homophobia

lateromantic's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

This one was more like fanfic than the others - every chapter ended on a cliffhanger, there were repeated words, too many characters and threads and deii ex machina and spiciness and

everyone gets a happy ending of sorts

but it was still enjoyable. This one was also more fantasy than the others, and that's not really my style of book, but it was still fun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual violence and Homophobia

rowstream's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Torture, Death, and Gore

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

**2023 REREAD**

A Court of Wings and Ruin takes the threads of the previous books and weaves them together into such a good conclusion to Feyre’s story.

Do I love this book? No, not really. But I definitely had a good time with it. ACOTAR does a better job of mixing the politics with the romance, and ACOMAF does a great job with the romance with just a sprinkle of the politics, but this book struggles to balance the two well. The plot is kinda meh, and the romance has already been established so there’s not a lot of time spent on it, which makes complete sense. 

I wish the war plot had been better entwined into all of the books so that it doesn’t feel so out of place. I think that SJM doesn’t fully understand the difference between “putting on a mask” and being a situationally bad person to the people you don’t like. But I also knew all of this going into the book, so it didn’t surprise me.

I know this is her most beloved series, and I really do like it, but it’s just not my favorite.

Anyway, if you go in with the expectation of fae vibes and steam you won’t be disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Racism

ivegotyourpaperback's review

3.5

Again, waaaaaaay too long. There were unnecessary scenes, and scenes that dragged on. Oh, and an appalling lack of Lucien.
Also, if Rhys is the most powerful High Lord in Prythian history why can’t he just turn Hybern’s entire army into red mist. Bada bing bada boom, done in 5 minutes. No need for 700 whole pages. That’s the problem with writing a character that’s sooooo powerful.

Moving on, I liked that we finally got some queer representation in this series, however it did feel like Maas just had a lightbulb moment and went “shit, I have no queer characters. Better chuck them in now for some diversity “. 🤦🏻‍♀️

As for our newly minted high fae Archeron sisters, Elain is still boring, doing (mostly) nothing for the whole book and Nesta is still the prickliest woman to ever exist. At least in this book she’s got a reason to be. My problem with Nesta as a character is that she only seems to have one emotional level: angry. Which makes her feel a bit two dimensional. Also, it’s super obvious that Nesta and Cassian are going to be mates at some point.

Oddly enough, the element I liked most about this book was the politics and negotiations between the various courts. Fryer’s shenanigans at the Spring Court at the beginning of the book we’re great (though I guess ended up being redundant and counterproductive, ugh), and the meeting with all the High Lords was a highlight (I’m still salty Lucien wasn’t there though). 

It’s hard to write a non-spoiler filled review and express all my thoughts. *sigh* 

⚠️domestic violence
⚠️implied homophobia
⚠️violence
⚠️gore
⚠️implied torture 
⚠️murder

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Torture